Woman a suspect in theft of $25,000 from employer: Solon Police Blotter

THEFT, BRUCE INDUSTRIAL PARKWAY: Officials at Fastener Tool & Supply reported Oct. 22 that an internal audit showed that between June and August, four unauthorized company checks totaling more than $25,000 were deposited into an employee’s bank account. Charges are pending against a Streetsboro woman, police said.

BURGLARY/FORGERY/THEFT, BROOKLAND AVENUE: A Broadview Heights man, 27, was arrested after a homeowner received a call Oct. 16 from a Parma bank indicating someone had attempted to cash one of her checks, from a starter checkbook that belonged to her. She found a check had been torn out, then confirmed the man trying to cash it had done work in her house in late September. The suspect had written the check out to himself for $672.

THEFT. SOLON ROAD: A Cleveland woman reported Oct. 16 that between February 2009 and 2012, a total of roughly $7,000 on four tax returns had been deposited into an account other than hers. Police said the charges were filed in Solon because that’s where her tax preparer for the past four years resides.

I.D. FRAUD, SEDGEFIELD OVAL: A resident reported Oct. 17 he had been contacted by a collection agency informing him someone had opened up a “Check & Go” Internet loan account in his name, totaling $1,877, back on Feb. 29 and March 1.

POSSESSION OF DRUG ABUSE INSTRUMENTS, ROUTE 91: A Macedonia man, 23, stopped for speeding on the morning of Oct. 16 near Station Street had a syringe seized from his car, along with a small sandwich bag containing an unknown white powder that was sent to a crime lab for testing.

DRUNKEN DRIVING, NUMEROUS LOCATIONS: A Macedonia man, 26, was arrested about 2 a.m. Oct. 21 after an officer noticed his pickup truck traveling west in the eastbound lanes of U.S. 422, about a mile from the SOM Center Road interchange, believed to be the place where he got on the freeway. He registered nearly 1-1/2 times the legal limit of .08 BAC on the Breathalyzer.

A Solon woman, 46, was arrested Oct. 19 about 10:30 p.m. in the 29000 block of Aurora Road, refused a Breathalyzer and received several other citations, including failure to dim headlights, weaving and driving left of center.

A South Euclid woman, 27, was arrested shortly after 4 a.m. Oct. 20, initially for making a wrong turn from the wrong lane, and then for impaired driving after she registered .152 BAC on the Breathalyzer.

A Lyndhurst woman, 71, was arrested just before midnight Oct. 20 for suspicion of drunk driving while westbound on U.S. 422 after she was pulled over for failure to drive in marked lanes, but then registered over the legal limit.

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